Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Compassion is not mere sentiment but a powerful force that can transform both ourselves and others.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

The world is its own magic.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

Metta (loving-kindness) becomes truly effective only when it arises from a peaceful mind, a pure mind, a balanced mind.